Parenthetical Girls' third album and first for Tomlab is an eleven song linear narrative of moral ambiguities, set to an elaborately orchestrated olio of modern classical and timeworn, traditional American pop forms. They borrow from the string swept sentimentality of Van Dyke Parks, Scott Walker, Jack Nitzsche, and Burt Bacharach, then introduce the influence of more formidable strains of modern classical composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Philip Glass, and Gavin Bryars. The result is a confluence of...   [ read more ]

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The latest from Pacific Northwest pop group the Parenthetical Girls -- Zac Pennington and Dead Science members Sam Mickens and Jherek Bischoff (who also is a regular contributor to Xiu Xiu and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Beginning where their previous (Grrrls) album left off -- on the same sweat-and-menstrual-blood-soaked summer lawn -- the album takes a sonic leap forward, pitting Pennington's plainspoken and startlingly corporeal apparitions with kitchen sink experimentation and dark pop arrangem...   [ read more ]

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A remastered and repackaged reissue of the debut release from Pacific Northwest electro-pop duo Parenthetical Girls. Seven tracks performed with bass synthesizer, ill-tuned guitar, analog tape delay, and glockenspiel, and presented as two radically different versions--one mixed by Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, the other by Jherek Bischoff of Dead Science. Fourteen tracks in all.

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